Saturday, March 24, 2012

Make-Money-From-Your-Teenager Salted Butterscotch Blondies

How often does your child offer to pay YOU to make something? It really doesn't happen often, um, ever, around here.

A few weeks ago, I volunteered to provide a tray of blondies for an
event. Now, if your house is like my house, all sweets must be "tested"
before leaving the premises.

Kiddo was 2 bites in and announced,

"I will PAY you to make more of these."

Ok.
Deal. What do you think I should charge? $2? $10? A promise he'll
come home every weekend when he's away at college? A promise that he'll let me choose his bride, her dress, and provide me with at least one granddaughter since my sister & I have all boys and need to buy some pink and tutus?Yeah, that
ought to do it.

Kiddo is right about these...they are one of our new favorite recipes for spring. Heck, spring, summer, winter, or fall. (Are you singing James Taylor right now?)

The dangerous thing about these
bars is...they are SO easy to make. You won't even need your
mixer....just a bowl and a spoon.

Now, you will be using
Imitation Butter Flavoring.
I know, it sounds a little scary. I'm not
asking you to drink it straight up. You'll use a teaspoon. And, if
you cut your blondies into 24 squares, you'll only consume 1/24th of a
teaspoon in each one. It's totally worth it.

Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350. Lightly grease a 9x13" pan. Set aside.
Melt the butter in a saucepan over low heat. Once melted, pour the butter into a bowl and stir in the sugar, salt, baking powder, vanilla and butter flavoring until combined.

Stir in the flour, and then the lightly beaten eggs. Stir until thoroughly combined. Stir in the butterscotch chips.

Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smooth with an offset spreader. Sprinkle on the flaky sea salt.

Bake for 30-35 minutes. Cool completely on a wire rack before cutting.

Salted Butterscotch Blondies. How much will YOU make from your kids by baking them?

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Butterscotch is one of my favorite flavors EVER! I don't bake much with it since no one in my family likes it but me. However... these bars look good enough I might have to make a batch just for myself :)

Nice! I just made a pan of blondies this week because my husband ate all the cookies in the house and I wanted something sweet. I'm adding these to the cookbook - I don't like chocolate much, so I'm always happy to find good chocolate-free recipes!

My husband has a strict policy that anything I put pn my blog must first go in his belly. If he sees somethong on there that he didn't taste he is appalled. :) Seriously this recipe looks so good that I'm pretty sure it would be a do-over...meaning the whole pan would be eaten before I snapped pictures.

And I love that this uses a slightly unusual extract that I actually have. Yay! I got the butter extract when I took Wilton courses a few years ago and they told me that I just had to use the Wilton buttercream icing (which tastes like shortening and sugar) and that the butter extract was needed for it. I tried that buttercream and refused to make it again. So I have a whole bottle sitting here. Woohoo! These just went to the top of my to-do list. I have a few bags of butterscotch chips that I've been hoarding and now I have the perfect use. I *love* butterscotch. I just want to bathe in the stuff.

Bridget, you are TOO funny. I know you have just kiddo, so I say, yeah...milk him for all he's worth. I've got my 5 kids, and I sure plan to do exactly the same thing! And, we ADORE brownies around here...so this one will be bookmarked for sure.

I just made them, pretty darn good. The only thing I didn't have was unbleached flower, so I would suggest to anyone using bleached flour, cut it back by 1/4 to 1/2 a cup.

For something really special, try putting a fat dollop of Häagen-Dazs créme brulée ice cream on top of a square when it's still warm from the oven, I did and it was absolutely scrumptious. That's a combination you could serve for dessert at the end of dinner and your guests will be delighted.

Dang! I've been looking all over for a good blondies recipe, and here it is! My mom used to make a similar version when I was a kid, but she lost the recipe, and it is gone forever. I have to try this!

I just made these and they're heavenly. The only thing I don't like is that I just consumed 1/2 cup of sugar, excluding the butterscotch chips. Whoops. I guess I need to learn to have some self-control. So, if you have self-control, you have to make these and try to ration them somehow. They're absolutely amazing! Butterscotch is probably my favorite stand alone flavor and these brownies definitely satisfied my need for butterscotch. :)

Found this recipe thanks to Pinterest! They are in the oven now and smell AMAZING!!! I decided I am going to call them "butterbeer bars" for my kids because they remind me of the butterbeer recipe frm the Harry Potter series. My kids are obsessed so your recipe will score me major bonus pts lol! Thanks!